Rising interest rates designed to cool inflation are squeezing consumers' disposable incomes around the globe with spending on big ticket and discretionary items coming under pressure.Yet spending on everyday necessities, mass daily-use items that billions employ every day, is holding up rather well. That's good news for the makers of mundane products which consumers trust and depend upon; think t

- Full year results to be 'at least' in line with forecasts- Gaining market share as shoppers switch to cheaper products- Accrol's net debt is fallingShares in Accrol (ACRL:AIM) rallied 8% to 27.7p after the Blackburn-based toilet rolls, kitchen rolls and wet wipes supplier said it is on track to deliver results for the year to April 2023 'at least in line' with market expectations.The cost-of-liv

Calls from both the Bank of England?s governor, Andrew Bailey, and its chief economist, Huw Pill, for wage restraint do not sit easily alongside the current headline inflation figures. Nor does Unilever?s (ULVR) statement (10 Feb) that it raised prices by 4.9% in the fourth quarter of last year and has planned further hikes in 2022, thanks to expected input cost inflation of 3% to 4%.A few small c

The FTSE 100 finished 0.81% in the green at 7,551.72 points on Wednesday, building on Tuesday's rally despite US CPI inflation hitting 7% in December, a 40-year high.With markets already pricing in rate rises, investors took the US inflation print in their stride, though it would have been a different story if the figure had strayed above the 7% most analysts had been expecting.Global equities wer

London's FTSE 100 traded 0.66% higher at 7,540.92 points by lunchtime on Wednesday amid the release of a slew of positive local earnings updates, including guidance upgrades from retailers Sainsbury's (SBRY), JD Sports Fashion (JD.) and Dunelm (DNLM), and as investors awaited the release of key US inflation data due later in the day.The global mood already had been lifted by testimony from Federal

Shares in Accrol (ACRL:AIM) slumped 18.7% to a one-year low of 25p after its second severe profit warning in four months.Accrol, which supplies loo rolls, tissues and kitchen wipes to many leading UK supermarkets and discounters, is being tightly squeezed by rising energy costs but paper pulp prices have also been rising sharply, as have supply chain costs.The warning is serious enough to spark th

ACCROL (ACRL:AIM) 37.8pLoss to date: 25.6%Original entry point: Buy at 50.8p, 26 August 2021Our buy call on Accrol (ACRL:AIM) is 25.6% underwater following a profit warning (20 Oct 2021) from the toilet roll, tissue and kitchen roll maker.Yet we're minded to stay positive on the private label manufacturer, since the business is being buffeted by external factors rather than internal issues. Accrol

UK stocks eked out small but unconvincing gains on Wednesday as investors weighed the impact of rising Covid-19 cases and the threat of an interest rate rise against ongoing economic recovery.Despite UK consumer prices for September climbing less than expected inflation remains well above the Bank of England's 2% target rate.At the close the FTSE index of leading shares was 5 points higher at 7,22

Leading UK stocks were trading largely flat in early afternoon on Wednesday after Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng ruled out a fresh lockdown amid fears over rising Covid-19 infections.UK consumer prices for September climbed 3.1% against expectations of a 3.2% rise, briefly easing fears of an early rate rise, although inflation remains well above the Bank of England's 2% target rate.Yet UK stoc

Shares in Accrol (ACRL:AIM) slumped 21% to 35.5p after the toilet roll, tissue and kitchen roll maker warned earnings for the year to next April will be lower than previously expected due to a time lag in passing on increased supply chain costs to customers.The HGV driver shortage, rising raw material prices and a slower than expected recovery in footfall for discount retail customers have conspir

UK stocks edged lower on Wednesday in line with most European markets despite another positive session in the US overnight and a slightly better than expected domestic inflation print.UK consumer prices for September climbed 3.1% against expectations of a 3.2% rise, briefly easing fears of an early rate rise, although inflation still remains well above the Bank of England's 2% target rate.Both the

Given the potential for the Delta variant to interrupt the economic recovery and with prospects for inflation and slower growth weighing on market sentiment, this seems a sensible time to invest in companies that sell non-discretionary items, products that consumers have to use every day, in economic weather fair or foul.One such business is Accrol (ACRL:AIM), the toilet roll, tissue and kitchen r

Sometimes investors ignore funds which have accumulated a limited amount of funds from investors, often because they are seen as not having much of a future due to a lack of scale or just because they don't have the marketing budgets of the big asset managers.However, ignoring these smaller funds could mean neglecting some potentially interesting investment options.VICTIMS OF SUCCESSWhile we are l

London's FTSE 100 finished lower on Friday as travel-related stocks fell and after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq opened lower, with a rise in US bond yields weighing on highly valued tech stocks a day after the S&P 500 set a record closing high.By the close on Friday, the benchmark FTSE 100 index was down 0.38% at 6,915.75 points, though the high-flying FTSE 250 ended 0.02% higher at 22,251.26.TRAVEL STO

After an extraordinary year we look back at some of the top performers in different size categories from the heavyweights all the way down to sub £100 million market cap stocks at the bottom of the market and examine what has driven them higher in 2020. We have excluded investment trusts.£4 billion + market capShare price movements in mining companies can be about exposure to the commodities the

At the worst point on Monday 9 March, the FTSE 100 traded 8.4% lower, recording its fourth biggest one-day drop on record. Only two days during the 1987 crash (12.2% and 10.8%) and in the 2008 global financial crisis (8.8%) were worse.The oil sector bore the brunt of the latest sell-off with an estimated £61.5bn wiped off UK oil stocks, with Premier Oil (PMO) and Tullow Oil (TLW) seeing the bigge

London's FTSE 100 shed 9.1 points to trade at 7,273 on Tuesday as political uncertainty caused sterling to drop below $1.20 for the first time since 2017. This weighed on the UK-focused FTSE 250, dragging it back by 26 points to 19,456 and is also bad news for UK domestic FTSE 100 stocks including the housebuilders, supermarkets and various banks.Plumbing and heating products distributor Ferguson

Shares in toilet roll specialist Accrol (ACRL:AIM) have collapsed by 88.25% in value since the company joined the stock market in June 2016.Having last year blamed rising costs for a major profit warning, the business has now issued another warning for the same reason.Accrol says the challenges facing the group are 'resolvable, given time and experienced handling'. However, it adds that fixing the

The FTSE 100 is treading water at around the 7,150.25 in early trading as traders look ahead to the latest rates decision from the US Federal Reserve on Wednesday.Software firm Micro Focus (MCRO) plunges 40% to £11.29 as it warns revenue will fall between 6% and 9% in 2018 against previous guidance for a drop of between 2% to 3% and chief executive Chris Hsu quits the group. The problems are link

Toilet rolls-to-industrial wipes manufacturer Accrol (ACRL:AIM) has returned from suspension on AIM (20 Nov) and announced a £18m placing to shore up its balance sheet.Accrol was suspended in October due to a short-term funding crunch, having been beset by higher costs and a health and safety fine.Besides the heavily discounted placing, Accrol now warns it is on course for break even or a margina